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Canada‘s Great Bear Rainforest sweeps along British Columbia’s Inside Passage and is more than twice the size of Yellowstone National Park. In the middle of this broken wilderness, more than 150 miles (240 km) from the nearest paved road, is the King Pacific Lodge, a floating fishing lodge based on the serene waters of Princess Royal Island’s Barnard Harbor, home to black wolves, grizzlies, black bears, and a maximum of thirty pampered guests. Photo by: andrew mcgarry
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Canada counts out the days until the beginning of the Winter Olympics with the last details of preparation. The 2010 Winter Olympics run from Feb. 12 to 28 in the Canadian city of Vancouver and the winter sports resort of Whistler. The biggest sports forum for this year starts on Friday and Vancouver gets ready. The most serious problem is the high temperatures and lack of snow.
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This resort is frequently regarded as one of the best ski and snowboard destination in the world. Whistler Blackcomb is located in Coast Mountain Range. The Twin Mountains offer 8,171 acres of skiable terrain, ranging from beginner to expert slopes. Just a two hours drive of Vancouver, Canada, Whistler Blackcomb boasts a wide range of accommodation and a world-class terrain parks. It really is all you could ask for in a ski and snowboard resort.  The ski and snowboard season lasts from mid-November to early June.
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 The park is best known for being one of the most important dinosaur fossil beds in the world.  Now known as the Dinosaur Provincial Park, was established on June 26th, 1955 under the name, Steveville Dinosaur Provincial Park as part of Alberta’s 50th Jubilee year. Stands of cottonwoods, a variety of animal life, and, most important, the extensive bone-beds, were instrumental in UNESCO’s designation of the park as a World Heritage Site in 1979. The park boasts a very complex ecosystem including three communities: prairie grasslands, badlands, and riverside cottonwoods.
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Form by the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late nineteenth century, this fantastic hotel on the shore of Lake Louise is just on two hours drive west of Calgary in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The place is also famous among the locals as the Diamond in the Wilderness. This pioneering hotel started as a humble log cabin in 1890, providing accommodation for fifty clients. Photo by: sminky_pinky100 (Busy In & Out)
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Horseback riding, bear and  whale- watching trips, kayaking, trekking – these are just some of the activities available at Clayoquot Wilderness Resort, possibly North America’s only luxury safari-style resort. The whole resort is like a camp, surrounded by verdant rain forest in the area near British Columbia‘s Tofino designated by UNESCO as Biosphere Reserve.
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The Harbin Festival is one of the largest ice festivals in the world, along with Sapporo Snow Festival and Quebec Winter Carnival. The festival covers 400,000 sq. m and uses 120,000 m³ of ice and snow on Sun Island on the Songhua River in Harbin. It is held annually from January 5 and lasts for over one month. During this period the temperature can drop down to as low as -30°C. One of most popular winter destinations in China, Harbin attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world brave the sub-zero temperatures to admire the ice sculptures.
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